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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 04, 2007
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| US 07263874 | Fitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioScale, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Fitch (Arlington, Massachusetts); Stuart Wenzel (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for determining properties of a fluid involves interacting the fluid with a standing wave in a first state to establish the standing wave in a second state, analyzing an electric signal associated with the standing wave to determine a characteristic associated with the second state, and determining the property of the fluid by comparing the characteristic with a function that associates a plurality of properties with a corresponding plurality of characteristics. The characteristic can include a maximum phase slope, a phase slope associated with a resonant frequency, a maximum magnitude associated with the resonant frequency, the value of the resonant frequency, or any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/148156 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264042 | Tilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isothermal Systems Research, Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Tilton (Colton, Washington); Chester L. Turner (Clarkston, Washington); William J. Beasley (Moscow, Idaho); Douglas W. Miller (Moscow, Idaho); William C. Gustafson (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A spray cooling system for extreme environments for providing a desired enclosed environment for electronic devices regardless of external environmental conditions. The spray cooling system for extreme environments includes an enclosure that isolates the electronic components from the external environment, a spray unit within the enclosure for thermally managing one or more electronic devices, a pump unit fluidly connected to the spray unit, a heat exchanger unit fluidly connected to the pump, and a control valve fluidly connected between the heat exchanger unit and the pump. An independent chamber preferably houses a heater unit, a first power supply and a control unit, whereby the heater unit initially heats the coolant within the independent chamber to a minimum operating temperature prior to operation of the electronic components. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255456 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264204 | Portmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmut Portmann (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Launch and recovery of an aerial vehicle by a forwardly moving surface vehicle relies on a winch module having a winch to selectively reel out and reel in a towline and a sensor capable of sensing tension in the towline. A lifting body assembly having a pair of lifting bodies and a snagging wire is connected to the towline. The lifting bodies lift and laterally extend the snagging wire between the lifting bodies. An aerial vehicle flying through the air engages the snagging wire by a hook. A first signal representative of tension of the towline causes the winch to reel in the towline and to bring the aerial vehicle to the surface vehicle, and a second sensor associated with the hook generates a second signal representative of tension in the hook and causes the aerial vehicle to cut its motor. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311582 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/110.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264682 | Chandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. S. Ravi Chandran (Salt Lake City, Utah); Shampa Aich (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A borided titanium article can include a titanium mass having titanium monoboride whiskers infiltrating inward from a surface of the titanium mass to form an integral surface hardened region. The titanium mass can be almost any titanium based metal or alloy such as high purity titanium, commercial grade titanium, α-titanium alloy, α+β titanium alloy, β-titanium alloy, titanium composite, and combinations thereof. Borided titanium articles can be formed by methods which include providing a titanium mass, contacting a surface of the titanium mass with a boron source medium, and heating the titanium mass and boron source medium to a temperature from about 700° C. to about 1600° C. The boron source medium can include a boron source and an activator selected to provide growth of titanium monoboride whiskers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122119 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264762 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank K. Ko (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alan G. MacDiarmid (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Ian D. Norris (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Manal Shaker (Pratsville, Alabama); Ryzard M. Lec (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of making conductive polymeric fibers by electrospinning fibers from a blend of polymers dissolved in an organic solvent includes generating a high voltage electric field between oppositely charged polymer fluid in a glass syringe (4) with a capillary tip (5) and a metallic collection screen (2) and causing a polymer jet (3) to flow to the screen (2) as solvent evaporates and collecting fibers on the screen (2). |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/169216 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264775 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith D. Wilson (Lees Summit, Missouri); Stephen B. Cummins (Kansas City, Missouri); Douglas C. Stewart (Mission, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An igniter assembly for a pulsed flame photometric detector having a filament comprising a resistive heating wire between about 0.08 millimeter and about 0.40 millimeter in diameter wound into a coil having an inner diameter between about 0.40 millimeter and about 3.2 millimeters. The filament has an applied protective coating of an alloy of gold and palladium. The filament is detachably connected to a cable and connector assembly that connects the filament to a source of power in the pulsed flame photometric detector. |
| FILED | Monday, January 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/248433 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264783 | Doyle, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Doyle, III (Phoenix, Maryland); Alan T. Seitzinger (Abingdon, Maryland); John T. Lawton (Killen, Alabama); Jerry W. Owen (Tuscumbia, Alabama); Grady Lynn Holt (Florence, Alabama); Joseph T. Johnson (Signal Mountain, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The Chemical-agent Access and Neutralization System (CANS) of the present invention is a small, portable, single-use, disposable chemical treatment apparatus that is used to access and treat Chemical Agent Identification Set (CAIS) ampoules, bottles and/or containers that contain vesicant agents, or chemical warfare agents such as mustard or Lewisite. The apparatus and method of use of the present invention provides a resultant treatment residue that remains totally contained in the CANS treatment container and is safe for disposal. The CANS treatment container can be over packed into a Department of Transportation (DOT) certified shipping container, and shipped to permitted hazardous waste management facilities for ultimate disposal. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/617275 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264924 | O'Connell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. O'Connell (Abingdon, Maryland); Akbar S. Khan (Joppa, Maryland); Cheng J. Cao (Glen Army, Maryland); Jennifer R. Bucher (Joppa, Maryland); Mark V. Gostomski (Bel Air, Maryland); James J. Valdes (Churchville, Maryland); Patricia E. Anderson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and assays for detecting bacteriophage MS2 in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010700 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265143 | Njar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent C. O. Njar (Columbia, Maryland); Angela M. H. Brodie (Fulton, Maryland); Ivo P. Nnane (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs, synthesis methods of C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs and methods of using C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs to treat various cancers and dermatological diseases and conditions. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs include C-4 all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and 13-cis retinoic acid (13-CRA) analogs. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs inhibit all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) 4-hydroxylase activity, thereby inhibiting the catabolism of ATRA. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs also have ATRA-mimetic activity. The preferred substitutions at C-4 are an azole group, a sulfur, oxygen, or nitrogen containing group, a pyridyl group, an ethinyl group, a cyclopropyl-amine group, an ester group, or a cyano group, or forms, together with the C-4 carbon atom, an oxime, an oxirane or aziridine group. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339332 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/396 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265175 | Winey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen I. Winey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fangming Du (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania); Reto Haggenmueller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Takashi Kashiwagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to flame retardant nanocomposites and methods of reducing the flammability of polymeric compositions using nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977642 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265215 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eileen P. Kelly (Takoma Park, Maryland); Alan D. King (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A recombinant protein encompassing the complete envelope glycoprotein and a portion of the carboxy-terminus of the membrane/premembrane protein of dengue 2 virus was expressed in baculovirus as a protein particle. The recombinant protein particle was purified and found to provide protection against lethal challenge with dengue 2 virus in mice. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/357129 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265375 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhibo Zhang (Raleigh, North Carolina); Veena Misra (Raleigh, North Carolina); Salah M. A. Bedair (Raleigh, North Carolina); Mehmet Ozturk (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming a nano-scale electronic and optoelectronic devices include forming a substrate having a semiconductor layer therein and a substrate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer. An etching template having a first array of non-photolithographically defined nano-channels extending therethrough, is formed on the substrate insulating layer. This etching template may comprise an anodized metal oxide, such as an anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) thin film. The substrate insulating layer is then selectively etched to define a second array of nano-channels therein. This selective etching step preferably uses the etching template as an etching mask to transfer the first array of nano-channels to the underlying substrate insulating layer, which may be thinner than the etching template. An array of semiconductor nano-pillars is then formed in the second array of nano-channels. The semiconductor nano-pillars in the array may have an average diameter in a range between about 8 nm and about 50 nm. The semiconductor nano-pillars are also preferably homoepitaxial or heteroepitaxial with the semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/065085 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265399 | Sriram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Jason Henning (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | High power transistors are provided. The transistors include a source region, a drain region and a gate contact. The gate contact is positioned between the source region and the drain region. First and second ohmic contacts are provided on the source and drain regions, respectively. The first and second ohmic contacts respectively define a source contact and a drain contact. The source contact and the drain contact have respective first and second widths. The first and second widths are different. Related methods of fabricating transistors are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977227 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265589 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic gate has a dynamic node pre-charged in response to a pre-charge phase of a clock signal and a logic tree with a plurality of logic inputs for evaluating the dynamic node during an evaluate phase of the clock signal in response to a Boolean combination of the logic inputs. The logic tree has a stacked configuration with at least one multi-gate FEAT device for coupling an intermediate node of the logic tree to the dynamic node in response to a first logic input of the plurality of logic inputs or in response to the pre-charge phase of the clock signal. The multi-gate FEAT device has one gate coupled to the first logic input and a second gate coupled to a complement of the clock signal used to pre-charge the dynamic node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/168717 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265844 | Codner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Codner (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert M. Corn (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface plasmon resonance imaging apparatus provides an improved optical assembly allowing fixed source and detector operating with a horizontal test surface for a more compact design. In a preferred embodiment, a mechanical linkage of planar mirrors provides a single point adjustment of angle of incidence and angle of refraction while maintaining a constant optical axis of the source and detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602243 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266040 | Norwood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Frances Norwood (Oviedo, Florida); Cathy Christensen Matthews (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method and system for displaying simulated acoustically realistic active sonar signals. The method includes simulating a realistic sounding active sonar signal that originates from a simulated sonar transmitter. The simulated sonar signal is acted upon and modified by simulated ocean effects and is received by a simulated hydrophone. The sonar signal is acoustically displayed within a simulated ocean acoustic environment that incorporates realistic sounding simulated reverberation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203574 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266042 | Gent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Gent (New Bedford, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. McPhillips (Warren, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-stage maximum likelihood target estimator for use with radar and sonar systems is provided. The estimator is a software implemented algorithm having four computational stages. The first stage provides angle smoothing for data endpoints thereby reducing angle errors associated with tie-down times. The second stage performs a coarse grid search to obtain the initial approximate target state to be used as a starting point for stages 3 and 4. The third stage is an endpoint Gauss-Newton type maximum likelihood target estimate which determines target range along two time lines. The final refinement of the target state is obtained by the fourth stage which is a Cartesian coordinate maximum likelihood target estimate. The four-stage processing allows the use of target historic data while reducing processing time and computation power requirement. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398732 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266044 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsih C. Yang (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for processing passive acoustic signals received on a horizontal line array that were either emitted from an underwater object or echo returned from an object, is proposed to track the motion (bearing change and range change) of an object (target) relative to the receiver horizontal line array. Adaptive array processing for a moving object is biased for a moving source when the number of data samples is limited by the stationariness condition. Motion compensation can be carried out in the beam domain by beam shifting for a bearing changing object and frequency shifting for a range changing object. The method includes receiving acoustic signals from the target, determining the beam covariance matrices, determining the target bearing rate and range rate, processing the beam covariance matrices by compensating for the target motion, and producing a beam power plot versus time. Interference signal is suppressed when the interference source does not have the same motion (bearing and range rate) as the target. The method does not need detailed environmental acoustic information of the sound channel normally required to model the sound propagation. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014457 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266046 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature lightweight transmitter that mechanically generates low-frequency acoustic energy is described, wherein one or more miniature balloons filled with air are positioned at the center of a pressure vessel filled with water and tethered in place. The system is then driven into resonance by using transducers that directly drive the wall of the pressure vessel or by using a piston to drive fluid into and out of the pressure vessel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473420 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266161 | Hart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy D. Hart (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Steven L. White (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method provides efficient parallel processing for use with a single-bit sampler that provides single-bit samples at a high sample rate. A serial-to-parallel converter converts the single-bit samples into parallel single-bit samples at a reduced sample rate. A digital quadrature mix performs a frequency shift to the parallel single-bit samples and simultaneously performs a real-to-complex conversion of the parallel single-bit samples from the serial-to-parallel converter to provide parallel I and Q output values at an intermediate frequency. The serial-to-parallel converter has shift register stages that provide a memory for use in functional realization of a boxcar filter and decimation-by-two in the digital quadrature mix. The digital quadrature mix utilizes logic to route and invert the parallel single-bit samples resulting in the parallel I and Q single-bit output values. Additional filter and decimate stages may be used to process the parallel I and Q single-bit output values. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/606724 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266284 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Rochester, New York); Philippe M. Fauchet (Pittsford, New York); Michael Molinari (Reims, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling one or more temperature dependent optical properties of a structure in accordance with embodiments of the present invention includes heating at least a portion of a photonic band-gap structure and oxidizing the portion of the photonic band-gap structure during the heating to alter at least one temperature dependent optical property of the stack. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826502 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266484 | Lombardo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph S. Lombardo (Annapolis, Maryland); Howard S. Burkom (Baltimore, Maryland); Farzad Mostashari (Brooklyn, New York); Eugene Elbert (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Technique for early detection of localized exposure to an agent active on a biological population include collecting time series for each data type of multiple different data types. The data types are relevant for detecting exposure to the agent. For each data type multiple time series are collected for corresponding multiple locations associated with the data type. Measures of anomalous conditions are generated at the locations for each of the different data types. The measures of anomalous conditions are based on the time series and a temporal model for each data type. Cluster analysis is performed on the measures of anomalous conditions to determine an estimated location, and an estimated extent, of effects from the agent. The techniques allow a surveillance system to avoid diluting the signal of a localized outbreak over too large and area or consuming excessive resources in computing replicas for a matched filter detector. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/466459 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
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| US 07266532 | Sutton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Sutton (Bellaire, Texas); Ian MacQueen Drummond Jamieson (Rumford, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the use of autonomous devices, which can be arranged in networks, such as neural networks, to better identify, track, and acquire sources of signals present in an environment. The environment may be a physical environment, such as a battlefield, or a more abstract environment, such as a communication network. The devices may be mobile, in the form of vehicles with sensors, or may be information agents, and may also interact with one another, thus allowing for a great deal of flexibility in carrying out a task. In some cases, the devices may be in the form of autonomous vehicles which can collaboratively sense, identify, or classify a number of sources or targets concurrently. The autonomous devices may function as mobile agents or attractors in a network, such as a neural network. The devices may also be aggregated to form a network of networks and provide scalability to a system in which the autonomous devices are operating. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161058 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266576 | George |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard V. George (Endicott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for approximating a base 2 logarithm of a binary input and the circuit to implement the method are disclosed. The circuit comprises means for determining the integer portion of the logarithm, a lookup table module, a residual function module, an adder module and a register. This circuit performs the approximation in one system clock cycle time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/329192 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266707 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin J. Nowka (Georgetown, Texas); Rajiv V. Joshi (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A low power consumption pipeline circuit architecture has power partitioned pipeline stages. The first pipeline stage is non-power-gated for fast response in processing input data after receipt of a valid data signal. A power-gated second pipeline stage has two power-gated modes. Normally the power rail in the power-gated second pipeline stage is charged to a first voltage potential of a pipeline power supply. In the first power gated mode, the power rail is charged to a threshold voltage below the first voltage potential to reduce leakage. In the second power gated mode, the power rail is decoupled from the first voltage potential. A power-gated third pipeline stage has its power rail either coupled to the first voltage potential or power-gated where its power rail is decoupled from the first voltage potential. The power rail of the second power-gated pipeline stage charges to the first voltage potential before the third power-gated pipeline stage. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942419 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
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| US H2201 | Stytz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin R. Stytz (Beavercreek, Ohio); Sheila B. Banks (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a data-handling architecture that exploits the technical advantages offered by object-oriented techniques, classes, data containers, component software, object frameworks, containerization, design patterns, and a central runtime data repository. The architecture is based on the Common Object DataBase (CODB), frameworks, components, objects, information streams, and containers. The software exploits the Extensible Markup Language (XML), employs software gauges, and uses intelligent agents to aid in assembly, diagnosis, evaluation, composition, and re-configuration of a DATE-based application. The architecture of the present invention is defined by highly-modular components where interdependencies are well-defined and minimized. Components define the major aspects of the inventive architecture, objects are used to flesh out the specification, design, and implementation of the components. The invention's architecture can support the dynamic loading of any of the components or major objects in any component required without re-linking or recompiling software. Within the architecture, data is transmitted between components only along information streams within containers using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/094738 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE39803 | Danyluk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Danyluk (Atlanta, Georgia); Anatoly Zharin (Minsk, Belarus); Elmer Zanoria (Peoria, Illinois); Lennox Reid (Houston, Texas); Kenneth Hamall (Westchester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-vibrating capacitance probe for use as a non-contact sensor for tribological wear on a component. The device detects surface charge through temporal variation in the work function of a material. A reference electrode senses changing contact potential difference over the component surface, owing to compositional variation on the surface. Temporal variation in the contact potential difference induces a current through an electrical connection. This current is amplified and converted to a voltage signal by an electronic circuit with an operational amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/846835 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Miles B. Brennan (Denver, Colorado); Jessica Costa (Glendowie, Auckland, New Zealand); Robert M. Dores (Littleton, Colorado); Ute H. Hochgeschwender (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Carrie Haskell-Luevano (Archer, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | ACTH analog compounds of the present invention include compounds comprising an ACTH peptide sequence with one or more structural modifications that can have one or more of the following preferred ACTH analog biological functions: (1) reduction of corticosteroid secretion by adrenal membrane in the presence of the ACTH analog compared to unmodified ACTH, (2) reduction of corticosteroid secretion by adrenal membrane in the presence of endogenous ACTH and (3) increased MC-2R binding affinity with reduced activation of the MC-2R receptor compared to unmodified ACTH binding to the MC-2R melanocortin. The ACTH analog compounds of the present invention are therefore useful for treatment or prevention of diseases and disorders related to ACTH, ACTH receptors or corticosteroid secretion, such as premature labor and Cushing's Disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260551 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Brush, broom, and mop making 3/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264803 | Schwarz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret A. Schwarz (La Canada-Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating pulmonary hypertension in a subject in need of such treatment comprises inhibiting EMAP II activity in the subject by an amount effective to treat the pulmonary hypertension in the subject (e.g., in the lungs and more particularly in the pulmonary vasculature). Pharmaceutical formulations useful for carrying out such methods (e.g., an antibody that specifically binds to EMAP II in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier) and screening techniques useful for identifying additional compounds that can be used for carrying out such methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/274788 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07264807 | Das |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiron M. Das (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a method for treating ulcerative colitis. Specifically, the method comprises orally or rectally administering to a human having ulcerative colitis a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody which binds to a tropomyosin isoform associated with ulcerative colitis. In another embodiment, the invention pertains to a method for treating ulcerative colitis in a human which comprises the steps of (a) obtaining from a human a colon epithelial cell extract containing a tropomyosin isoform associated with ulcerative colitis; (b) purifying the tropomyosin isoform until the tropomyosin isoform is substantially homogeneous; (c) developing an antibody which binds to the tropomyosin isoform; and (d) orally or rectally administering to a human having ulcerative colitis a therapeutically effective amount of the antibody to bind to the tropomyosin isoform associated with ulcerative colitis. In yet another embodiment, the invention pertains to a method for treating ulcerative colitis in a human which comprises orally administering to the human a therapeutically effective amount of a tropomyosin isoform associated with ulcerative colitis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427196 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/152.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264922 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney A. Welch (Madison, Wisconsin); Wyndham W. Lathem (St. Louis, Missouri); Thomas E. Grys (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a pO157 plasmid-specified polypeptide found in E. coli EDL933 and other E. coli that binds to and cleaves C1-esterase inhibitor, and antibodies specific for the polypeptide. Also disclosed are methods employing the polypeptide for diagnosing enterohemorrhagic E. coli infection, identifying potential inhibitors of its activity, and reducing viscosity of material containing glycosylated polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294087 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07264923 | Virgin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert W. Virgin (St. Louis, Missouri); Christiane Wobus (Kirkwood, Missouri); Stephanie Karst (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A norovirus-permissive cell culture infected with a norovirus, and methods of culturing a norovirus, are disclosed. Norovirus-permissive cells include dendritic cell-lineage cells, and macrophage-lineage cells, such as dendritic cells, and macrophages having a deficiency in a cellular anti-viral pathway such as a STAT-1-dependent pathway, an interferon receptor-dependent pathway, or a PKR-dependent pathway. Also disclosed are methods of screening anti-viral compounds against norovirus-permissive cells infected with norovirus, and norovirus adapted to grow in fibroblasts as well as macrophages that are not deficient in a cellular anti-viral pathway. Methods of making a norovirus vaccine are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839211 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07264931 | Gabriel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abram Gabriel (Princeton, New Jersey); Yoshifumi Kobayashi (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for determining the sequence of a nucleic acid sequence via incubation of a primer extended product of the nucleic acid sequence in separate pools of semi-random oligonucleotides of 5′ (N)nA3′, 5′ (N)nG3′, and 5′ (N)nT3′, wherein N is A, C, G or T and n is selected so that the oligonucleotides will optimally anneal to all complementary sequences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344891 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07264947 | Gozes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Illana Gozes (Hasharon, Israel); Douglas E. Brenneman (Damascus, Maryland); Merav Bassan (Natanya, Israel); Rachel Zamostiano (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor III (ADNF III), also known as Activity Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP). More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding ADNF III polypeptides; ADNF III polypeptides encoded by such nucleic acid sequences; antibodies to ADNF III polypeptides; and methods of using such ADNF III polypeptides for the treatment of neurological deficiencies and for the prevention of cell death associated with (1) gp120, the envelope protein from HIV; (2) N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (excito-toxicity); (3) tetrodotoxin (blockage of electrical activity); and (4) β-amyloid peptide, a substance related to neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623272 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07264948 | Robbins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D Robbins (Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania); Raymond Frizzell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Zhibao Mi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fei Sun (Warrendale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for enhancing channel activity to the mutant cystic fibrosis trans-membrane conductance regulator protein (CFTR). The compositions of the invention comprise polypeptides containing CFTR sub-domains that are designed to mimic the folding defect of the full length mutant CFTR proteins, resulting in competitive binding to cytoplasmic chaperones such as Hsc/Hsp70 and Hdj2. The methods of the invention comprise transduction, or recombinant expression, of CFTR polypeptides in a cell expressing mutant CFTR. The presence of the CFTR polypeptide results in a dominant effect whereby the CFTR polypeptide competes with the endogenously expressed mutant CFTR for binding to cytoplasmic chaperones such as Hsc/Hsp70 and Hdj2. Mutant CFTR proteins include, but are not limited to, ΔF508 CFTR. The present invention is based on the discovery that reduced binding of cytoplasmic chaperones to the endogenous ΔF508 CFTR, mediated by the presence of CFTR polypeptides, results in restoration of plasma membrane localization and channel activity. The methods and compositions of the invention can be used to restore channel activity in cystic fibrosis subjects carrying genetic defects in the CFTR gene, such as for example, ΔF508 CFTR. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650435 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264968 | Melton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Melton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention makes available a method for inducing neuronal differentiation and preventing the death or degeneration of neuronal cells both in vitro and in vivo. The subject method stems from the unexpected finding that, contrary to traditional understanding of neural induction, the default fate of ectodermal tissue is neuronal rather than mesodermal and/or epidermal. In particular, it has been discovered that preventing or antagonizing a signaling pathway in a cell for a growth factor of the TGF-β family can result in neuronal differentiation of that cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721692 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07264969 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Yu (Carlsbad, California); Sung Wan Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jae-Woon Nah (Suncheon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | An artery wall binding peptide (AWBP) based on the artery wall cell-binding domain of apolipoprotein B-100 was conjugated to a cationic backbone configured for forming a complex with a nucleic acid to produce a composition that enhances gene transfer to artery wall cells. An illustrative cationic backbone is poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted-poly(L-lysine) (PEG-g-PLL). Methods of making and using the composition for gene transfer are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/416381 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264970 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki L. Chandler (Tucson, Arizona); Jay B. Hollick (Berkeley, California); Jane E. Dorweiler (Tucson, Arizona); Damon Lisch (Albany, California); Ken Kubo (Sacramento, California); Charles Carey (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic silencing is a little understood process by which genes introduced into plants are turned off or silenced. Genetic screens were designed to identify corn mutants with reduced gene silencing activity. Such mutant corn lines include Mop1-1; Mop1-2EMS; Mop2-1, mop3-1; CC2343, rmr1-1; rmr1-2; rmr2-1; rmr6-1; rmr7-1; rmr7-2; rmr8-1; rmr9-1; Mop1-4; Mop1-5; and rmr11-1 and seeds derived therefrom, the plants are useful for corn breeding programs to produce inbred and hybrid seed with reduced gene silencing activity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972805 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
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| US 07265083 | Strieter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Strieter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven L. Kunkel (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are various discoveries concerning the angiogenic and angiostatic properties of the CXC chemokines, including the finding that the ELR motif controls the ability of these molecules to induce angiogenesis. Aspects of the invention include, for example, the identification of IP-10, MIG and certain IL-8 analogues as angiostatic agents, and their use in inhibiting angiogenesis in various systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/104755 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07265091 | Lue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom F. Lue (Hillsborough, California); Ching-Shwun Lin (San Mateo, California); Yuet W. Kan (San Francisco, California); Peter Carroll (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for preventing or treating male erectile dysfunction or female sexual arousal disorder by administering an effective amount of one or more factors from a group of factors including vascular endothelial growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, neurotrophin-3, neurotrophin-4, or angiopoietin-1, wherein the factor is a full length protein or a nucleic acid encoding the factor, or a functional derivative or fragment thereof, or an agent that enhances production and/or male erection or female sexual arousal stimulating function of the factor(s). Combinations, kits, and combinatorial methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040947 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07265112 | Zembower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angion Biomedica Corp. (Garden City, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Zembower (La Grange, Illinois); David A. Eiznhamer (Bloomingdale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein R1, R2 and B are as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of any of a number of conditions or diseases in which HGF/SF or the activities thereof, or agonists or antagonists thereof have a therapeutically useful role. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025373 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/235.500 |
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| US 07265143 | Njar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent C. O. Njar (Columbia, Maryland); Angela M. H. Brodie (Fulton, Maryland); Ivo P. Nnane (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs, synthesis methods of C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs and methods of using C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs to treat various cancers and dermatological diseases and conditions. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs include C-4 all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and 13-cis retinoic acid (13-CRA) analogs. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs inhibit all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) 4-hydroxylase activity, thereby inhibiting the catabolism of ATRA. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs also have ATRA-mimetic activity. The preferred substitutions at C-4 are an azole group, a sulfur, oxygen, or nitrogen containing group, a pyridyl group, an ethinyl group, a cyclopropyl-amine group, an ester group, or a cyano group, or forms, together with the C-4 carbon atom, an oxime, an oxirane or aziridine group. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/339332 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/396 |
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| US 07265208 | Saxon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Saxon (Santa Monica, California); Ke Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Daocheng Zhu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns bifunctional fusion molecules for the treatment of IgE-mediated allergic conditions and FcεRI-mediated autoimmune conditions. The invention provides a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of both acute and late-phase allergic responses due to ingestion, inhalation, cutaneous and parenteral exposure to allergens, responses including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, severe food allergies, chronic urticaria and angioedema, as well as anaphylactic reactions due to exposures such as bee stings or penicillin allergy. In addition, the invention provides for a novel, safer and more efficacious form of allergy vaccination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/847208 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 07265226 | Wentland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Wentland (Menands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | 8-Substituted-2,6-methano-3-benzazocines of general structure I in which A is —CH2—OH, —CH2NH2, —NHSO2CH3, and Y is O, S or NOH are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. 8-Carboxamides, thiocarboxamides, hydroxyamidines and formamides are preferred. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987527 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/192 |
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| US 07265266 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents/Behalf of University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid, Spain) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Kang Zhu (Riverside, California); Francisco Javier Quintero-Toscano (Sevilla, Spain); Jose Manuel Pardo-Prieto (Sevilla, Spain); Quansheng Qiu (Urbana, Illinois); Karen Sue Schumaker (Tucson, Arizona); Masaru Ohta (Tsukuba, Japan); Changqing Zhang (Tucson, Arizona); Yan Guo (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention also provides for transgenic plants expressing the mutant SOS2 proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040005 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/289 |
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| US 07266410 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng-Sheng Chen (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for determining an increased likelihood of the occurrence of a cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, congestive heart failure and other diseased conditions of the heart associated with elevated sympathetic neural discharges in a patient. The methods and systems comprise monitoring the sympathetic neural discharges of a patient from the stellate ganglia, the thoracic ganglia, or both, and detecting increases in the sympathetic neural discharges. The methods and systems may further comprise delivering therapy to the patient in response to a detected increase in the sympathetic neural discharge, such as delivering one or more pharmacological agents; stimulating myocardial hyperinnervation in the sinus node and right ventricle of the heart of the patient; and applying cardiac pacing, cardioversion or defibrillation shocks. Pharmacologic agents which may be used in connection with the delivery of include those which are known to exert anti-arrhythmic effect and anti-convulsant agents, such as phenytoin, carbamazepine, valproate, and phenobarbitone. Other pharmacologic agents may be used to treat impending myocardial ischemia and other diseased conditions of the heart associated with elevated sympathetic neural discharges. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/069753 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/3 |
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| US 07266413 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard P. Williamson (Sherman Oaks, California); Joseph H. Schulman (Santa Clarita, California); Reza P. Rassool (Stevenson Ranch, California); Lee J. Mandell (West Hills, California); Abraham N. Seidman (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for improving visual acuity when providing a visual image from a “high” resolution input device to a “low” resolution output device. The described invention is of particular use when the output device is an array of electrodes as part of a retinal prosthesis used to restore vision to a visually-impaired patient. In that various limitations may, within the foreseeable future, limit the density of such an electrode array (and thus the resolution of the output image), the present invention teaches techniques to assign processed pixel subsets of a higher resolution image to a single electrode. By varying the pixel subsets, e.g., by jittering, and/or altering the processing criteria, the perceived visual acuity may be further improved. Alternatively and additionally, such processing may be further extended to drive neighboring electrodes in combination to thus stimulate virtual electrode sites and thus further enhance visual acuity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115620 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07263892 | Pfeifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent Bryant Pfeifer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Robert Leslie Williams (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert Lee Waldschmidt (Calgary, Canada); Catherine Hook Morgan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface acoustic wave device includes a micro-machined pressure transducer for monitoring tire pressure. The device is configured having a micro-machined cavity that is sealed with a flexible conductive membrane. When an external tire pressure equivalent to the cavity pressure is detected, the membrane makes contact with ridges on the backside of the surface acoustic wave device. The ridges are electrically connected to conductive fingers of the device. When the detected pressure is correct, selected fingers on the device will be grounded producing patterned acoustic reflections to an impulse RF signal. When the external tire pressure is less than the cavity reference pressure, a reduced reflected signal to the receiver results. The sensor may further be constructed so as to identify itself by a unique reflected identification pulse series. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337427 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07263955 | Fischer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandra Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Fischer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides robotic vehicles having wheeled and hopping mobilities that are capable of traversing (e.g. by hopping over) obstacles that are large in size relative to the robot and, are capable of operation in unpredictable terrain over long range. The present invention further provides combustion powered linear actuators, which can include latching mechanisms to facilitate pressurized fueling of the actuators, as can be used to provide wheeled vehicles with a hopping mobility. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513728 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/46.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264056 | Towler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramic, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian F. Towler (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for mitigating the deposition of wax on production tubing walls. The method comprises positioning at least one ultrasonic frequency generating device adjacent the production tubing walls and producing at least one ultrasonic frequency thereby disintegrating the wax and inhibiting the wax from attaching to the production tubing walls. A system for mitigating the deposition of wax on production tubing walls is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/527614 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264700 | Garzon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fernando H. Garzon (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Eric L. Brosha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rangachary Mukundan (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixed potential sensor for oxidizable or reducible gases and a method of making. A substrate is provided and two electrodes are formed on a first surface of the substrate, each electrode being formed of a different catalytic material selected to produce a differential voltage between the electrodes from electrochemical reactions of the gases catalyzed by the electrode materials. An electrolytic layer of an electrolyte is formed over the electrodes to cover a first portion of the electrodes from direct exposure to the gases with a second portion of the electrodes uncovered for direct exposure to the gases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760924 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264723 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anup K. Singh (San Francisco, California); Brian J. Kirby (San Francisco, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Laser-induced phase-separation polymerization of a porous acrylate polymer is used for in-situ fabrication of dialysis membranes inside glass microchannels. A shaped 355 nm laser beam is used to produce a porous polymer membrane with a thickness of about 15 μm, which bonds to the glass microchannel and form a semi-permeable membrane. Differential permeation through a membrane formed with pentaerythritol triacrylate was observed and quantified by comparing the response of the membrane to fluorescein and fluorescently tagging 200 nm latex microspheres. Differential permeation was observed and quantified by comparing the response to rhodamine 560 and lactalbumin protein in a membrane formed with SPE-methylene bisacrylamide. The porous membranes illustrate the capability for the present technique to integrate sample cleanup into chip-based analysis systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/443491 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264778 | McDaniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony H. McDaniel (Livermore, California); J. Will Medlin (Boulder, Colorado); Robert J. Bastasz (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon monoxide sensors suitable for use in hydrogen feed streams and methods of use thereof are disclosed. The sensors are palladium metal/insulator/semiconductor (Pd-MIS) sensors which may possess a gate metal layer having uniform, Type 1, or non-uniform, Type 2, film morphology. Type 1 sensors display an increased sensor response in the presence of carbon monoxide while Type 2 sensors display a decreased response to carbon monoxide. The methods and sensors disclosed herein are particularly suitable for use in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/387921 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264962 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Joanne V. Volponi (Livermore, California); David Ingersoll (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew Walker (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an apparatus and method for continuously converting sucrose to β-D-glucose. The method comprises a three stage enzymatic reactor in which an aqueous solution of sucrose is first converted into a solution of fructose and α-D-glucose by passing it through a porous, packed column containing an inert media on which invertase is immobilized. This solution is then sent through a second packed column containing glucose isomerase and finally a third packed column containing mutarotase. Solution temperature and pH are adjusted to maximize glucose output. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/080901 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/293.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265037 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Lori Greene (Berkeley, California); Matthew Law (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Homogeneous and dense arrays of nanowires are described. The nanowires can be formed in solution and can have average diameters of 40-300 nm and lengths of 1-3 μm. They can be formed on any suitable substrate. Photovoltaic devices are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868421 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265266 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents/Behalf of University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid, Spain) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Kang Zhu (Riverside, California); Francisco Javier Quintero-Toscano (Sevilla, Spain); Jose Manuel Pardo-Prieto (Sevilla, Spain); Quansheng Qiu (Urbana, Illinois); Karen Sue Schumaker (Tucson, Arizona); Masaru Ohta (Tsukuba, Japan); Changqing Zhang (Tucson, Arizona); Yan Guo (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention also provides for transgenic plants expressing the mutant SOS2 proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040005 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265298 | Maghribi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Thomas S. Wilson (Castro Valley, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); Christina Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A stretchable electronic apparatus and method of producing the apparatus. The apparatus has a central longitudinal axis and the apparatus is stretchable in a longitudinal direction generally aligned with the central longitudinal axis. The apparatus comprises a stretchable polymer body, and at least one circuit line operatively connected to the stretchable polymer body, the at least one circuit line extending in the longitudinal direction and having a longitudinal component that extends in the longitudinal direction and having an offset component that is at an angle to the longitudinal direction, the longitudinal component and the offset component allowing the apparatus to stretch in the longitudinal direction while maintaining the integrity of the at least one circuit line. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826477 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07264200 | Bussom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Bussom (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Michael A. McVeigh (Media, Pennsylvania); Robert P. Narducci (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Thomas A. Zientek (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses systems and methods for the performance enhancement of rotary wing aircraft through reduced torque, noise and vibration. In one embodiment, a system includes a sail having an aerodynamic shape positioned proximate to a tip of the rotor blade. An actuator may be configured to rotate the sail relative to the blade tip. a A control system receives information from a rotorcraft system and commands the actuator to rotate the sail to a predetermined favorable rotor blade operating condition. In another embodiment, a method includes configuring the rotorcraft in a selected flight condition, communicating input signals to a control system operable to position sails coupled to tips of blades of a rotor assembly, processing the input signals according to a constraint condition to generate sail positional information, and transferring the sail positional information to the sail. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898698 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/17.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264876 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Ken A. Smith (Katy, Texas); Michael O'Connell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new compositions of matter and articles of manufacture comprising SWNTs as nanometer scale conducting rods dispersed in an electrically-insulating matrix. These compositions of matter have novel and useful electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties including applications in antennas, electromagnetic and electro-optic devices, and high-toughness materials. Other compositions of matter and articles of manufacture are disclosed. including polymer-coated and polymer wrapped single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs), small ropes of polymer-coated and polymer-wrapped SWNTs and materials comprising same. This composition provides one embodiment of the SWNT conducting-rod composite mentioned above, and also enables creation of high-concentration suspensions of SWNTs and compatibilization of SWNTs with polymeric matrices in composite materials. This solubilization and compatibilization, in turn, enables chemical manipulation of SWNT and production of composite fibers, films, and solids comprising SWNTs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/935995 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265476 | Abushagur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mustafa A. G. Abushagur (Rochester, New York); Cynthia K. Ferguson (Huntsville, Alabama); Gregory P. Nordin (Huntsville, Alabama); Jennifer M. English (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscopic translation device for a microelectromechanical system includes a pair of linear stator assemblies disposed in spaced relation to define an elongate channel. Each assembly is formed by a plurality of stators arranged in a row along the channel. A shuttle member is disposed between the stator assemblies for translating movement along the channel. The shuttle member includes a plurality of rotors extending outwardly from opposite sides. The shuttle is grounded through the stator assemblies and includes a mounting area for an object to be translated. Electrical lines are individually connected to alternate stators of a plurality of groups of the stators. A current supply sequentially supplies current through the electrical lines to the alternate stators so as to effect charging of the stators in a predetermined sequence. This produces a tangential capacitive force that causes translation of the shuttle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975121 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265630 | Floyd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Allan Floyd (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Principles of the present invention provide improved amplifiers such as low-noise amplifiers. While such amplifiers may be suitable in many applications, such amplifiers may provide improved noise, gain and stability performance at millimeter-wave frequencies. In a first aspect of the invention, an amplifier includes a first amplifying stage including a common-base transistor, and a second amplifying stage, coupled to the first amplifying stage, including a cascode transistor pair. The amplifier may be implemented in accordance with a silicon-based technology (e.g., silicon germanium) and may employ microstrip shunt-stub transmission lines as matching networks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731341 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265683 | Bachelder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron D. Bachelder (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A roadside-based communication system providing backup communication between emergency mobile units and emergency command centers. In the event of failure of a primary communication, the mobile units transmit wireless messages to nearby roadside controllers that may take the form of intersection controllers. The intersection controllers receive the wireless messages, convert the messages into standard digital streams, and transmit the digital streams along a citywide network to a destination intersection or command center. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208243 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/907 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265712 | Merkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristian Merkel (Bozeman, Montana); Zachary Cole (Bozeman, Montana); Krishna Rupavatharam (Bozeman, Montana); William R. Babbitt (Bozeman, Montana); Kelvin Wagner (Boulder, Colorado); Tiejun Chang (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for analog processing of high time-bandwidth-product (TBP) signals use a material with an inhomogeneously broadened absorption spectrum including multiple homogeneously broadened absorption lines. A first set of signals on optical carriers interact in the material during a time on the order of a phase coherence time of the homogeneously broadened absorption lines to record an analog interaction absorption spectrum. Within a time on the order of a population recovery time for a population of optical absorbers it the material, the interaction absorption spectrum in the material is read to produce a digital readout signal. The readout signal represents a temporal map of the interaction absorption spectrum, and includes frequency components that relate to a processing result of processing the first set of signals. The techniques allow processing of RADAR signals for improved range resolution to a target, as well as speed of the target, among other uses. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/515089 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266545 | Bergman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence D. Bergman (Mount Kisco, New York); Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Chung-Sheng Li (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based technique is provided for retrieving one or more items from a database in response to a query specified by a user via one or more example sets. Preferably the example sets include multiple positive and negative example sets. The method comprises the following steps. First, a scoring function is constructed from the one or more example sets. The scoring function gives higher scores to database items that are more closely related to the query than to database items that are not as closely related to the query. The scoring function is operable for use with a multidimensional indexing structure associated with the database. Then, the one or more database items that have the highest score as computed using the scoring function are retrieved via the multidimensional indexing structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/923530 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanette M. Cardamone (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania); Anand Purshottam Kanchager (Webster, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inhibiting the burning of natural fibers (e.g., wool, wool fibers, animal hair, cotton), synthetic fibers (e.g., acetate, nylon, polyester, viscose rayon), or blends thereof (e.g., wool/cotton blends), or fabrics or yarns composed of natural fibers, synthetic fibers, or blends thereof, involving treating the fibers (or fabrics or yarns) with polyamic acid or at least one polyimidesiloxane (PISi) or mixtures of polyamic acid and at least one polyimidesiloxane. Also products produced by such methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211828 |
| ART UNIT | 1751 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification of textiles and fibers 08/115.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264970 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki L. Chandler (Tucson, Arizona); Jay B. Hollick (Berkeley, California); Jane E. Dorweiler (Tucson, Arizona); Damon Lisch (Albany, California); Ken Kubo (Sacramento, California); Charles Carey (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic silencing is a little understood process by which genes introduced into plants are turned off or silenced. Genetic screens were designed to identify corn mutants with reduced gene silencing activity. Such mutant corn lines include Mop1-1; Mop1-2EMS; Mop2-1, mop3-1; CC2343, rmr1-1; rmr1-2; rmr2-1; rmr6-1; rmr7-1; rmr7-2; rmr8-1; rmr9-1; Mop1-4; Mop1-5; and rmr11-1 and seeds derived therefrom, the plants are useful for corn breeding programs to produce inbred and hybrid seed with reduced gene silencing activity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972805 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265169 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and trhough the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon); Xinglian Geng (Quebec, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Adhesive compositions produced from abundant and renewable resources such as lignocellulosic materials, particularly decayed lignocellulosic materials or demethylated lignin. Other components present in particular examples of the adhesive compositions include relatively inexpensive materials, such as borates and/or polyethyleneimine. Also disclosed are lignocellulosic composites that are made from the adhesive compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802500 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265263 | Hannapel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hannapel (Ames, Iowa); Hao Chen (Ames, Iowa); Faye M. Rosin (Wageningen, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode a BEL transcription factor from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and the amino acid sequences encoded by such nucleic acid molecules. Additional aspects of the present invention relate to methods of using isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode BEL transcription factors from potato to enhance growth and to regulate flowering in plants. The present invention is also directed to a method for enhancing tuber development in a plant. This method includes transforming a tuberous plant with a DNA construct including a nucleic acid molecule encoding a BEL transcription factor or a KNOX transcription factor, and an operably linked promoter and 3′ regulatory region, whereby tuber development is enhanced in the plant. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624201 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07264314 | Brennan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Miles B. Brennan (Denver, Colorado); Jessica Costa (Glendowie, Auckland, New Zealand); Robert M. Dores (Littleton, Colorado); Ute H. Hochgeschwender (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Carrie Haskell-Luevano (Archer, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | ACTH analog compounds of the present invention include compounds comprising an ACTH peptide sequence with one or more structural modifications that can have one or more of the following preferred ACTH analog biological functions: (1) reduction of corticosteroid secretion by adrenal membrane in the presence of the ACTH analog compared to unmodified ACTH, (2) reduction of corticosteroid secretion by adrenal membrane in the presence of endogenous ACTH and (3) increased MC-2R binding affinity with reduced activation of the MC-2R receptor compared to unmodified ACTH binding to the MC-2R melanocortin. The ACTH analog compounds of the present invention are therefore useful for treatment or prevention of diseases and disorders related to ACTH, ACTH receptors or corticosteroid secretion, such as premature labor and Cushing's Disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260551 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Brush, broom, and mop making 3/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264527 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi E. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Heine (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Jeffrey N. Miller (Los Altos Hills, California); Ronald L. Moon (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-emitting device comprising a population of quantum dots (QDs) embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the QDs to emit secondary light and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the QDs is chosen to allow light of a particular color to be emitted therefrom. The light emitted from the device may be of either a pure (monochromatic) color, or a mixed (polychromatic) color, and may consist solely of light emitted from the QDs themselves, or of a mixture of light emitted from the QDs and light emitted from the primary source. The QDs desirably are composed of an undoped semiconductor such as CdSe, and may optionally be overcoated to increase photoluminescence. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877698 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07264970 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki L. Chandler (Tucson, Arizona); Jay B. Hollick (Berkeley, California); Jane E. Dorweiler (Tucson, Arizona); Damon Lisch (Albany, California); Ken Kubo (Sacramento, California); Charles Carey (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic silencing is a little understood process by which genes introduced into plants are turned off or silenced. Genetic screens were designed to identify corn mutants with reduced gene silencing activity. Such mutant corn lines include Mop1-1; Mop1-2EMS; Mop2-1, mop3-1; CC2343, rmr1-1; rmr1-2; rmr2-1; rmr6-1; rmr7-1; rmr7-2; rmr8-1; rmr9-1; Mop1-4; Mop1-5; and rmr11-1 and seeds derived therefrom, the plants are useful for corn breeding programs to produce inbred and hybrid seed with reduced gene silencing activity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972805 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265093 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Kihang Choi (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of a tTGase inhibitor to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces the toxic effects of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716846 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07265994 | Danvir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janice Danvir (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Katherine Devanie (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Nadia Yala (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A self supported underfill film (18) adhesively bonds surface mount integrated circuit packages (14) to a printed circuit board (10). The printed circuit board has conductive traces (12) and exposed conductive pads (13) on the surface. A film adhesive is strategically positioned on the printed circuit board near the conductive pads, and the surface mount integrated circuit package is then placed on the board so that the conductive pads (16) on the package align with the conductive pads on the board. The film adhesive softens when the package is soldered to the board, and the film ultimately serves as an underfill to increase the mechanical integrity of the solder joints. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356419 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266268 | Challener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Edward C. Gage (Mars, Pennsylvania); Tim Rausch (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Christophe Mihalcea (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keith Mountfield (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffraction gratings for coupling an electromagnetic wave into a planar waveguide are disclosed. The diffraction grating may include a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating slanted relative to one another. Alternatively, the diffraction grating may include a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating spaced apart to form a gap therebetween. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032277 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07265977 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yves Martin (Ossining, New York); Theodore G. Van Kessel (Millbrook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for cooling a semiconductor heat source. In one embodiment a thermal spreader is provided and includes a substrate for supporting the semiconductor heat source and a heat sink coupled to the substrate. A channel is disposed between the heat sink and substrate. The channel has at least one wall defined by the heat sink. The surface area of the channel wall defined by the heat sink is about 10 to about 100 times the surface area of a bottom surface of the semiconductor heat source. A coolant, for example liquid metal, circulates within the channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037441 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07266088 | Virgin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scott Virgin (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of monitoring and formatting data in a computer network. The first step of the method is creating a data flow table. The second step is receiving a data packet. The third step is identifying the data flow table fields that correspond with the data packet. The fourth step is analyzing the data packets. The fifth step of the method is storing the analysis results. The sixth step is updating the data flow table. The seventh step is comparing the data packets and the data flow table. The eighth step is storing the results of the comparative analysis. The ninth step is exporting terminated flows. The tenth step of the method is exporting metadata. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808165 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07265668 | Brosius |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SkyBitz, Inc. (Sterling, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Brosius (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-mode asset tracking and monitoring system and method is provided that enables comprehensive reporting of asset position, status, and alerts. In one embodiment, the multi-mode system and method is based on the addition of a local network monitoring system to a wide area satellite network monitoring system. In this example, the local network monitoring system would add container presence and status monitoring in crowded environments (e.g., within a port facility, on-board a ship, etc.), while the wide area satellite network monitoring system would provide tracking and monitoring coverage when the container is in dispersed environments. Both the local and wide area monitoring systems work together to provide end-to-end container tracking and monitoring to thereby ensure continuous container tracking and monitoring from container loading to container unloading. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005307 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07265169 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and trhough the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon); Xinglian Geng (Quebec, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Adhesive compositions produced from abundant and renewable resources such as lignocellulosic materials, particularly decayed lignocellulosic materials or demethylated lignin. Other components present in particular examples of the adhesive compositions include relatively inexpensive materials, such as borates and/or polyethyleneimine. Also disclosed are lignocellulosic composites that are made from the adhesive compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802500 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07266696 | Chamberlain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Chamberlain (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing electronic postmarking of data, without directly utilizing a regular electronic postmark (EPM) server (110), including receiving data from a data acquisition device (102), generating a MicroEPM data structure (106) comprising a time stamp, a digital signature, and the received data and transferring the MicroEPM data structure (106) to a regular EPM server (110). |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/450469 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07264777 | Blum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washingon, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex E. Blum (Boulder, Colorado); Dennis D. Eberl (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quantitatively determining surface area of a sample uses polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) dispersed in a solution containing the sample, and determining the amount of PVP that has deposited on the sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641590 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07265727 | Connor |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy A. Connor (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In an exemplary aspect of the invention, an antenna is disclosed that includes a ground plane and a disk disposed adjacent to the ground plane. The disk has a perimeter. The antenna further includes a loading reflector having an underside. At least a portion of the underside is electrically connected to a portion of the perimeter of the disk. The loading reflector has a width at a widest point, and the width at the widest point of the loading reflector is larger than a thickness of the disk. The disk may be circular or elliptical. The ground plane may include a cavity, where the disk is disposed within an outer border of the cavity. When an elliptical disk is used, the cavity may also be elliptical. An elliptical cavity may have a parabolic surface. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144145 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP17985 | Moore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick P. Moore (Puyallup, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of raspberry (i.e., Rubus idaeus L.) is provided. The cultivar has an early harvest season and forms large, medium colored, long conic, very good flavored fruit. Based on trials on root rot infested soil, the cultivar appears to exhibit good levels of tolerance to root rot. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058485 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 04, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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